[U-Boot] IXP42x patch series version 3

[Graeme Russ]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 4:03 AM, Michael Schwingen
<rincewind at discworld.dascon.de> wrote:
> Am 02/07/2011 09:54 PM, schrieb Graeme Russ:
>> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Michael Schwingen
>> <rincewind at discworld.dascon.de> wrote:
>>> Am 02/05/2011 12:52 AM, schrieb Wolfgang Denk:
>>>> Dear Michael Schwingen,
>>>>
>>>> In message <1296860763-16149-1-git-send-email-michael at schwingen.org> you wrote:
>>>>> here is the third incarnation of the IXP patch series. I hope I addressed
>>>>> all the comments from version 2:
>>>>>  - timer system now uses no BSS-based variables
>>>>>  - use I/O accessors
>>>>>  - remove config.mk from board directories
>>>>>  - set -ffunction-sections/--gc-sections globally (for IXP architecture)
>>>> Sorry, but please consider it all NAKed.
>>>>
>>>> See the note at bullet 2 at
>>>> http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/U-Boot/Patches#Sending_updated_patch_versions
>>>> for the rationale.
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I just tried, but I can't find a way to insert the changelog so that
>>> git-send-email places it at the required point (ie. after the s.o.b. and
>>> inside the same comment block as the diffstat) - all I could get was the
>>> changelog inside the comment block, with a line with "---" above, like this:
>>>
>>> From: Michael Schwingen <michael at schwingen.org>
>>> Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 21:34:59 +0100
>>> Subject: [PATCH 01/17] add XScale sub architecture (IXP/PXA) to
>>> maintainer list
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Changes for V2:
>>> Changes for V3:
>>>  - change patch description
>>>  - drop wepep250 (should already be deleted)
>>> Changes for V4:
>>>  - add changelog
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Michael Schwingen <michael at schwingen.org>
>>> ---
>>>  MAINTAINERS |   44 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>>>  1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>>> index b37ed0c..709c5d9 100644
>>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>>> @@ -559,8 +559,8 @@ Stefano Babic <sbabic at denx.de>
>>>
>>> which looks quite different from what the wiki suggests.
>>>
>>> Do you have a short pointer how to get the right result using git? Or is
>>> this format actually acceptable?
>>>
>> I use git-format-patch to dump the patches into a directory and then tweak
>> the comment section manually before using git-send-email. I can also run
>> diff against any two versions of the series, checkpatch etc
>>
>> Maybe there is a more integrated way, but I'm a creature of habit - once I
>> find something that works for me, I tend to stick to it :)
> manually editing the changelog in 17 files for every patch version does
> not sound very manageable. Is there really no way to generate/maintain
> the changelogs using git?
>

For multi-patch series, you only need to put the revision history in the
[00/nn] file - No need to individually annotate each and every patch

Regards,

Graeme